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Kathryn M. Davis

Oct 31, 2016
3 min

The Santa Fe Art Project

Jennifer Joseph Untitled (Shift), 2016 Oil on panel, 24 x 24 in. Terri Rolland Dark Red-Dark Red, 2011-2016, Acrylic and clay paint on panel, 6 x 20 in Let us sing the praises of art galleries who dare set up shop in risky neighborhoods—neighborhoods that are neither Downtown, on Canyon Road, nor in the Railyard Arts District. David Richard Gallery made the move toward lowering their rent by relocating, at the beginning of 2016, to Mid-Town, or the Pacheco Corridor, or St. Mi

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EVERYTHING OP IS NEW AGAIN: The Persistence and Recrudescence of Optical

David Eichholtz

Oct 11, 2015
5 min

EVERYTHING OP IS NEW AGAIN: The Persistence and Recrudescence of Optical

David Richard Gallery 2015 October 10 “Re-Op: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After”, currently on view at David Richard Gallery is the third in a series of presentations co-curated by Peter Frank, critic, curator and historian and David Eichholtz, gallerist, curator and historian that critically examines and reconsiders “The Responsive Eye”, the seminal exhibition organized by William C. Seitz at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1965. This particular installation explores

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Op Infinitum: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After (Part II)

David Richard Gallery

May 26, 2015
4 min

Op Infinitum: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After (Part II)

Click here to view catalog THE RESPONSIVE OTHER EYE: OPTICAL ABSTRACTION IN AND OUT OF MOMA By Peter Frank “The Responsive Eye,” the New York Museum of Modern Art’s controversial 1965 survey of a new kind of “optical” abstraction, was not the instigator, or even definer, of this abstraction, but merely its critical and popular apotheosis. I say “merely” because the MOMA exhibition – a result of several years of research and travel by curator William C. Seitz – served neither

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Bent Perimeters: The 'Shaped Canvas' and Abstraction, 1960s to Today

David Richard Gallery

Apr 17, 2015
3 min

Bent Perimeters: The 'Shaped Canvas' and Abstraction, 1960s to Today

Click here to view catalog FRAME FOLLOWS FORM: THE SHAPED PAINTING IN AMERICAN ABSTRACTION By Peter Frank After the Second World War, American artists fell into a frenzy of formal experimentation. At first dominated by the theater of metaphysical narrative that defined abstract expressionism, this trajectory of extravagant invention took a more formal turn around 1960 The production of imagery gave way to the production of unencoded, optically self-sufficient structures, man

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Post-Op: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After

David Richard Gallery

Feb 24, 2015
6 min

Post-Op: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After

Click here to view catalog OP SPRINGS ETERNAL: “THE RESPONSIVE EYE” FIFTY YEARS ON By Peter Frank Exactly half a century ago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York — the fount of authority for contemporary American art (and, it was supposed in America, for art around the world) — mounted a large survey of art designed to stimulate the eye of the beholder simply and directly, without reliance on extra-visual content. Here, the exhibition proclaimed, was a kind of art, practiced

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Peter Frank - Huffington Post

Sep 1, 2012
2 min

Deborah Remington / Judy Chicago

Deborah Remington, Dorset, 1972, Oil on canvas, 91" x 87" Deborah Remington was one of America's most enigmatic contemporary painters. Evolving out of Bay Area abstract expressionism, Remington had developed an inimitable and impossible-to-classify imagery, and technique to go with it, by time she moved to New York in the 1960s. Her forms are at once organic and geometric, erratic and heraldic, hard-edged and sensuous, gemlike and fleshy, seductive and frightening. Luminous,

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David Richard Gallery

Aug 17, 2012
5 min

Leo Valledor "Shapin' Up"

Click here to view catalog LEO VALLEDOR: JAZZ GEOMETRY By Peter Frank Along with those of many of his peers, Leo Valledor’s role in the development of postwar American art is being re-evaluated – re-discovered, actually, as befits the legacy of someone who died before his time but left behind a body of work whose latest examples are as engaging, and in many ways as challenging, as its earlier. In art-historical terms Valledor figured most crucially at a period when his workin

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Peter Frank - Huffington Post

Feb 29, 2012
2 min

Ward Jackson

Ward Jackson, Virginia River Series - Powhatan, 1970, Acrylic on linen, 36" x 36" Ward Jackson was a dependable presence on the New York scene, friend to nearly everyone, but few knew his work as a painter. His quiet, almost studious approach to abstract and representational painting alike endeared him more to fellow painters than to noisier scenemakers - a shame, as it relegated the substantial, even moving work of this dedicated painter to group shows and small, artist-run

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David Richard Contemporary

Nov 11, 2011
8 min

Bay Area Abstraction: 1945 - 1965

Click here to view catalog BAY AREA ABSTRACTION: 1945-1965 by David Eichholtz Abstract Expressionism dominated Post-War American art and was explored in parallel on the two coasts—in New York with notable figures such as Pollock, DeKooning, Motherwell, and Newman, and in San Francisco with painters such as Diebenkorn, Francis, Bischoff, Dugmore, Smith, Jefferson and Lobdell. There were striking similarities in the work produced from the two cities in terms of thick gestural b

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MaLin Wilson-Powel - Albuquerque Journal

Jul 15, 2011
4 min

California State of Mind

For the second year in a row, David Richard Contemporary is acting like a big-city gallery or art museum by presenting a curated exhibition of the multifaceted and dynamic innovations of contemporary art after World War II. “Southern California Painting, 1970s: Painting Per Se” follows last year’s “1960s Revisited” show of paintings from both East and West coasts. But this year is 2011, and it is the year for Southern California art. Unless you have just emerged from five or

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Southern California Painting, 1970s: Painting Per Se

David Richard Contemporary

Jul 1, 2011
7 min

Southern California Painting, 1970s: Painting Per Se

Click here to view catalog LOS ANGELES PAINTING IN THE 1970S The decade of the 1970s saw an explosion of art across America – everywhere, of every kind, by everyone. Nowhere did this explosion have more resonance than in Los Angeles; during the decade the city flooded with artists, newly graduated from Southern California’s many art schools and departments or attracted by the city’s growing cultural sophistication and complexity. And nowhere more than Los Angeles did the anom

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David Eichholtz

Jul 1, 2011
3 min

Southern California Painting, 1970s: Painting Per Se

Judy Chicago, Sky Sun - Flesh Garden Series, 1971, Sprayed acrylic on acrylic, 96" x 96" SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PAINTING, 1970s: PAINTING PER SE A group exhibition featuring: Charles Arnoldi, Billy Al Bengston, Karl Benjamin, Jerrold Burchman, Hans Burkhardt, Karen Carson, Judy Chicago, Ron Davis, Tony DeLap, Doug Edge, Merion Estes, Charles Garabedian, Scott Grieger, Marvin Harden, Maxwell Hendler, Ynez Johnston, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Craig Kauffman, Helen Lundeberg, Ed Moses, Mar

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David Richard Contemporary

Oct 15, 2010
7 min

1960s Revisited - Catalog

Click here to view catalog The 1960s: Other Trajectories by Peter Frank The ‘60s aren’t what they used to be. We know these fabled years constitute a decade of rapid and continuous change, but we’re learning that we don’t really know the half of it. In American art, for instance, the decade of Pop Art and Minimalism was also a decade of hard-edge and gestural abstraction, painterly figuration, and eccentricities of many kinds. The decade of New York’s pre-eminence also saw th

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